Brave New Vegetables

Unknown to most of us, the breeding of new master races of corn and beans, spinach, lettuce, and so on continues relentlessly among the seed companies, as well as the research stations, here and abroad. Alas, the main concern of this research is not flavor, but convenience and merchandising possibilities.

This is what Derek Fell, Director of the National Garden Bureau, presidential advisor, and author of How to Plant a Vegetable Garden, has to say about the future of vegetables. There will be sweet corn with no cob, or rather with a very small core, called a string cob. Canned or frozen, you can get more into a jar or package and you eat it like a candy stick. Furthermore, today’s corn cobs won’t go through a garbage disposer, but the new one will.

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Unknown to most of us, the breeding of new master races of corn and beans, spinach, lettuce, and so on continues relentlessly among the seed companies, as well as the research stations, here and abroad. Alas, the main concern of this research is not flavor, but convenience and merchandising possibilities.

This is what Derek Fell, Director of the National Garden Bureau, presidential advisor, and author of How to Plant a Vegetable Garden, has to say about the future of vegetables. There will be sweet corn with no cob, or rather with a very small core, called a string cob. Canned or frozen, you can get more into a jar or package and you eat it like a candy stick. Furthermore, today’s corn cobs won’t go through a garbage disposer, but the new one will.